Saukiella Temporal range:
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S. pepinensis from Wisconsin | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | † Trilobita |
Order: | † Asaphida |
Family: | † Saukiidae |
Genus: | †
Saukiella Ulrich & Resser, 1933 |
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Saukiella is a genus of trilobites of the Saukiidae family.
These fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeders lived in the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, from 498.5 to 478.6 Ma. [1] [2]
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Ordovician sediments of Russia and in the Cambrian sediments of Canada, China, Kazakhstan and United States. [1]
Saukiella Temporal range:
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S. pepinensis from Wisconsin | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | † Trilobita |
Order: | † Asaphida |
Family: | † Saukiidae |
Genus: | †
Saukiella Ulrich & Resser, 1933 |
Species | |
|
Saukiella is a genus of trilobites of the Saukiidae family.
These fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeders lived in the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, from 498.5 to 478.6 Ma. [1] [2]
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Ordovician sediments of Russia and in the Cambrian sediments of Canada, China, Kazakhstan and United States. [1]